Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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Upcoming US Protests (fedia.io)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I honestly don't know what the "don't buy anything" protest is supposed to do. Everyone is going to buy extra stuff on the 27th and then just do all of their catch-up spending on the 29th. This isn't going to affect companies at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

you have to crawl before you can walk.

the point isn't to impact companies... no one's expecting a single day boycott to end capitalism. that's ridiculous.

small events leading up to bigger ones is part of growing a movement, of testing how far you can count on people to support your cause. these types of actions are test runs to see if people have any capacity whatsoever for organizing and acting together in unison.

some leftists (other commenters in this thread who were gatekeeping) are too smart for their own good, and think that we can get millions to go on a general strike overnight or enact some dramatic v for vendetta moment. turns out, deeply individualist Americans conditioned by a lifetime of isolation and atomized existence need a little gradual coaxing sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's a show of support and organization. It's a warning that "We are able to organize enough people to make this much of an impact for 1 day, if nothing changes then next time it will be longer."